Frederick Luis Aldama

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Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, United States, where he teaches Latino/a and Latin American post-colonial literature, film, and comics, as well as narrative theory and cognitive science approaches to culture. He is also founder and director of L.A.S.E.R/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment Research *L.A.S.E.R. website

Aldama received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999.

Aldama uses narrative theory and cognitive science in his teaching and scholarship on Latino and Latin American post-colonial literature, art, music, film and comic books. He is the author and editor of nineteen books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism, Brown on Brown, the Modern Language Association-award winning Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas, Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach (2008), A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, Analyzing World Fiction (2011), Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature (2012),Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry, Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century, Latinos in Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal, ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture,¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture co-authored with Ilan Stavans, Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL co-authored with Christopher González, Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, Aesthetics co-authored with Patrick Colm Hogan. Along with Patrick Colm Hogan and Arturo Aldama, he is the series editor of Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture with the University of Texas Press. He coedits the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series with the University of Texas Press. He edits the Contemporary Latino Writers and Directors series with the Ohio State University Press He sits on the executive council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and on the editorial boards for journals such as Narrative and the Journal of Narrative Theory , and is a member of the standing board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies

Aldama's articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Aztlán, College Literature, Poets & Writers, World Literature Today, Cross Cultural Poetics, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Lucero, Comparative Literature, The Callaloo Journal, Nepantla, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Analysis, American Literature, Latin American Research Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Drama, SubStance, Style, ImageTexT and Fox News Latino.

Books

  • Postethnic Narrative Criticism (University of Texas Press, 2003)
  • Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works (Arte Público Press, 2003)
  • Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (University of California Press, 2004)
  • Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity (University of Texas Press, 2005)
  • Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions (University of Texas Press, 2005)
  • Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers (University of Texas Press, 2006)
  • Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach (University of Texas Press, 2008)
  • Your Brain On Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez" (University of Texas Press, 2008)
  • A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction (University of Texas Press, 2009)
  • Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle (University of Texas Press, 2010)
  • Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts (University of Texas Press, 2010)
  • Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory (University of Texas Press, 2011)
  • The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature (Routledge, 2012)
  • Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry (, 2013)
  • Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century (, 2013
  • Latinos in Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (, 2013)
  • ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture. Co-authored with Ilan Stavans (, 2013)
  • Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL. Co-authored with Christopher González (, 2013)
  • Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, Aesthetics. Co-authored with Patrick Colm Hogan (, 2014)

Several additional books are scheduled to appear in 2014 and 2015, including a single director study of Robert Rodriguez and volume of essays on director Robert Rodriguez for the University of Texas Press, a volume of essays on teaching Latino literature for Routledge, and a coedited volume of essays on Latino comics for OSU Press.

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